Music: Indianapolis Dancer

In Indianapolis some 14 years ago, a healthy 12-year-old child, free from funny fixations, was
taken
to see Anna Pavlowa dance. The child had no notions of dancing, was
to all appearances just a midwesterner with an eight-letter
name—Ruth Page, daughter of Dr. Lafayette Page, now director of the
James Whitcomb Riley Memorial Hospital for children in Indianapolis.
But she left Pavlowa's recital starry-eyed, went home and practiced
pirouettes in the parlor.

A year later when Pavlowa returned to
Indianapolis, Ruth was taken to see...